THE SOMERFORD LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Darby Plains setting.
Somerford township has 30.5 square miles of land in Madison County. Its Census reference point is in Darby Plains, within Eastern Corn Belt Plains.
Rolling glacial till plains are interrupted by end moraines and areas of older, more dissected deposits. The historical landscape had more tree cover than the Central Corn Belt to the west.
Regional context: Eastern Corn Belt Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Somerford and Madison County
Somerford is associated with Madison County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Somerford by land and water
The Census records 0.46 square miles of water within Somerford, or 1.5% of its total area. It is 1.3 percentage points higher than the 0.2% recorded for Madison County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Somerford township has 29.4 times the land area of nearby Choctaw Lake CDP (1.04 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

